There's a new zombie mode?

Not yet

Since the blood update has been bugged into the game, chances are you can expect it to be released within the next month and a half or so. But maybe not because Fortoresse is usually slow to update.

The big update is finally here!!

v1.24 06/08/2014

- Added explosions FX for mines and C4
- 5 new weapons
- Added stats and profile : Rounds played, rounds won, players killed, deaths, captured flags, killed VIPs, healed points, explosion damage.
- New limited ammunitions system. Secondary weapon has always infinite ammo, and dead players can drop ammunition magazines.
- New skill : gives ammuniton magazines to other players. Players choosing this skill can drop 2 ammunition magazines when killed.
- Players with the Medikit skill can drop small medikits when dead.
- C4 and mines damage is slightly lowered
- Items now have team color indications
- Added team color for names in the players' list
- Added speech bubbles
- You can now click to switch players view when dead
- Capturing flags is now slightly longer
- Snipers' defense when crouching is lowered from 40 to 10%


- Credits to anouncements, in case some people didn't see it.

Version 1.25 (8/8/14?)
-VIPs have 2 lives (1st 144HP, 2nd 250hp)
-VIPs "bleed" (only if certain number of people in the room?)
-VIPs no longer gain health from Medic Kits / Packs
-Health pack bug fixed (VIPs touching them would have their health reset to 40hp if above 40hp)

Thanks Fewfre ^^, added

Arber I think VIP's lose health for the first 144 for each member on their team who dies? idk i saw that earlier

When the HP of the VIP shows 144 instead of 400, it's because of the printing format.

The HP of the player is stocked in at least 2 bytes while the HP show in game is on 1 byte.

With 1 byte, it can have a range of value [0; 255] when the byte is unsigned (signed number has [-128; 127]).

So if we put a bigger value when it can only show 1 byte, the higher part of the value will be cut.

1 1001 000 (400)
_ 1001 000 (144)

As you can see, the number 400 need at least 2 bytes in order to show the value correctly.

There were no issue when the maximum HP was 200 (1 byte) but from this version they should be printed on 2 bytes at least.

Thesnailgary a dit :

Arber I think VIP's lose health for the first 144 for each member on their team who dies? idk i saw that earlier

It does.

Thesnailgary a dit :

Arber I think VIP's lose health for the first 144 for each member on their team who dies? idk i saw that earlier

I just tested it, you are right; that explains by it was so inconsistent =p

Also, I was mistaken about health, it's 255 for 2nd life. (soz)

Edit:

+Laurent a dit :

The HP of the player is stocked in at least 2 bytes while the HP show in game is on 1 byte.

That explains why the 2nd life was 255HP, and also explains why it's possible for the VIP to have 0 health before it loops around. You're brilliant as always ^.^

So now, what would be the best weapon combo and perk combo to use? Confused by updates :P

What's best varies from person to person since everyone's play style is different. The most useful perks that your team would benefit from would be Health Pack and Ammunition. Perks that work well together would be C4/Mine and Shelter, Shelter and health pack, Rage and Health pack and an unpopular combination that could be very useful if people used it would be Rage and Shield. (This is just my opinion).

As for guns, a lot of people are still going to tell you that the Uzi is the best secondary especially with M40 but it really all comes down to personal preference. I personally take the Baretta with M40 because of it's fast reload, good clip and damage, and near perfect accuracy.

I can't really go into much about the other guns but I have a feeling it'd come down to if it fires slow, get a fast or balanced secondary and if it fires fast but does not much damage, get a high damaging secondary so you can finish them off if your primary doesn't.

So, I just noticed that perks now have (official) names. when did that happen, or have I just been oblivious to it?

Yea, perks have names now.

Tig forgot to patch the "Turn off particles effect". e.e I hope I can turn off the dust effect from shooting blocks cos it looks like snow.

Has the friendlist always looked like this? I'm just now noticing it and I thought it was pretty cute kekeke, it's nice admiring the smaller details that go into the games. ^^

Shadowwinter a dit :

Has the friendlist always looked like this? I'm just now noticing it and I thought it was pretty cute kekeke, it's nice admiring the smaller details that go into the games. ^^

Tribes look similar, too.

Oooh, I forgot to look at the tribe's one. I'm gonna do that now !

Sniper's ammunition was updated to 8, not sure when; assuming V1.24. Credit to Shadowwinter for noticing.

Arber a dit :

Snipers' defense when crouching is lowered from 40 to 10%

This is very late but I just wanted to point out that if this is true and people who use the M40 really do have their defense lowered then that's really unfair considering how heavily countered the M40 already is. It's already really difficult to deal with conjuration and especially other guns that render conjuration useless which leave the players at this current state with no way of defending themselves besides firing a blank shot and hoping the enemy is low enough.

Ehh, it's just something that's kinda getting on my nerves even if it isn't very noticeable. Every HP counts, even 1 HP can make a difference !

hmmm.... the official update said this was true, but I tested it just now with a mine, and when i was crouching with a sniper, it still did 15 damage (15/25*100 = 60% damage done). Just to make sure I also attacked my crouching guest account, and he took 10 damage (10/17*100 = ~59% = 60%, aka same as normal).

I'm guessing this was either removed in V1.25, or much like the "toggle particles" update, hasn't actually been released yet.

I really really hope they rethink the update if it hasn't actually been released yet, otherwise it's going to be such a pain having to cope with it especially with high damaging weapons other then the M40. ><